Football
- First Round (Group A)
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- Morocco 0-0 United States
- Malaysia 3-0 United States
- West Germany 7-0 United States → did not advance, 14th place over-all
- Team Roster
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- Mike Ivanow (GK)
- Casey Bahr
- John Bocwinski
- Horst Stemke
- Neil Stam
- Archie Roboostoff
- Mike Seerey
- John Carenza
- Buzz Demling
- Manuel Hernandez
- Hugo Salcedo
- Al Trost
- Joe Hamm
- Steve Gay
- Shep Messing (GK)
- Wally Ziaja
- Mike Flater
- Mike Margulis
- Jim Zylker
- Coach: Bob Guelker
Read more about this topic: United States At The 1972 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)